Country size comparison
compared to
Nicaragua is about 5 times smaller than Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is approximately 652,230 sq km,
while Nicaragua is approximately 130,370 sq km, making
Nicaragua 19.99% the size of Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, the population of Afghanistan is ~38.3 million people
(32.0 million fewer people live in Nicaragua).
This to-scale comparison of
Afghanistan
vs.
Nicaragua
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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